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Nominative is a grammatical case that tells us who or what performs the action in the sentence. It isn't hard to learn Nominative case, in fact, it has no endings nor sound changes. When you learn a new noun, it is actually already in Nominative.

Dječak čita knjigu.

Translation: The boy reads a book.

Noun in bold, the boy, indicates Nominative, the one who (or even what) does the action. More examples:

Most feminine nouns and masculine nouns that ends with a belong to this declination. Nominative plural of masculine nouns is created by adding -e (replacing a with e) to noun.
sluga (servant) - sluge
vođa (leader) - vođe
Nominative plural of feminine nouns is created by adding -e (replacing a with e) to noun.
žena (woman, wife) - žene
olovka (pencil) - olovke